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"Attitude is Everything."OLMD definition of attitude: "An enduring, learned predisposition to behave in a
consistent way toward a given class of objects, or a persistent mental and/or neural state of readiness to react to a
certain class of objects, not as they are but as they are conceived to be."WTSWYTTYS on attitude: "You will become what you think about most: your success or
failure in anything, large or small, will depend on your programming - what you accept from others, and what you say when
you talk to yourself."
Doc Brown in the movie Back To the Future: "Your future is not created yet, so make it a Great one!"Optimism is magic. When we are optimistic, not only do we find our experiences rising to match
our expectations, we keep energy moving, feel good, and are appreciated by others. In a similar vein, we have only to
visualize good health, strength and vitality to begin developing more of it in our lives. We can affect every cell in our
beings by positively visualizing what we desire.

ACAM web site
A non-profit medical society dedicated to educating physicians on the latest findings and emerging procedures in
complementary/alternative medicine, with special emphasis on preventive/nutritional medicine. ACAM's goals include both
improvement of physicians' skills, knowledge, and diagnostic procedures, and enhanced awareness in the public at large of
alternative methods of medical treatment.

The well known way that ALL new things become known and accepted:
First they are ridiculed as foolishness.
Next they are attacked as false and misleading quackery.
Finally, they are accepted as true and that everyone had known it all the time.

Another way of putting it:
"All truth passes through three stages.
First it is ridiculed,
Then it is violently opposed,
Then it is taken as self-evident"
----Schoepenhauer

First of all, ALL acidophilus products are the pure germs and can be used topically OR internally. All of them that are
on the market are the normally occurring ones for a healthy colonic (or vaginal) ecology. There is not "one for
candida and another for something else". All normal germs are helpful against the
susceptibility to candida by maintaining a healthy ecology (the opposite of Dysbiosis).

From Metagenics, the names for the most effective ones Walt knows of are Ulterdophilus and Ultrabifidus.
Call (800) 522-6382 for the places near you that carry their product. If there is none, tell them Walt Stoll recommended you
to them and to sell it directly to you. If they give you problems, tell them to discuss it directly with Jim Shaddle
(Vice President of the company in charge of Metagenics Midwest--the number I gave you.) It will come in dry ice shipping.

The only ones that I KNOW are alive are the ones by Klair and Metagenics and they would be in the refrigerator.
Any place that does not know these simple facts is not a place you want to shop for stuff like this.

Walt's Acne and Accutane Q&A Archive
Walt says acne is caused by imbalances in the normal hormonal matrix that makes up us all.
Women have several hormonal stressors that men do not: pregnancy, menopause, menses, nursing, and a
generally more responsive hormonal net than men have. ANYONE with acne past puberty has to have a glandular imbalance that
is showing as acne as just the tip of the iceberg of what effect this glandular/hormone
imbalance will have on the rest of their health for the rest of their lives. Even if you could totally eliminate the acne
with a pill, all you would be doing is turning off the message your
bodymind is trying to send you about the iceberg. See
Individualized Response to Hormonal Imbalance.

Dr. Kim's suggestions on acne: The skin is an indicator of what is going on underneath it.

The major pre-disposing factors for acne:
a. Diet high in refined carbohydrates.
b. Hormonal insufficiency (especially with adolescent acne).
c. Excess iron in the diet.
d. Insufficient vitamin A and E in the diet.
e. Insufficient zinc and magnesium in the diet.

Dr. Kim's Dietary Suggestions relating to acne would be to:
a. Drink at least 8 full glasses of pure water daily (avoid well water and water containing chlorine and fluoride).
b. Eliminate fried foods, refined carbohydrates (NO SUGAR!) and dairy products
(except butter).
c. Avoid iron cooking utensils and iron containing supplements.
d. Increase raw foods high in fiber, as well as raw nuts and seeds.
e. Eliminate all hydrogenated fats and oils. Use fresh and raw oils.

Make sure you take a good multi-vitamin/mineral product and a good flax oil product. He has also used Thymex and Spanish
Black Radish from Standard Process with good results.

Homeopathically, Ledum Pelustre is a remedy to investigate. He has had several patients do excellent with it.

In acupuncture, fine needles are inserted at specific points in the body to stimulate, disperse, and regulate the flow of
Chi, or vital energy, through the body, and to restore a healthy energy balance. Often used in the US for pain relief,
acupuncture is also used to improve well-being and to treat acute, chronic,
and degenerative conditions.

Acute: Occurring over a short period of time, or lasting a short time. As opposed to Chronic: Persisting over a long
period of time, or recurring. Allopathic medicine is good at treating acute illness, but abysmal at treating chronic
illness.

Walt's Exercise Q&A Archive
Any extended physical activity that makes you breathe hard while using the large muscle groups at a regular, even pace.
Aerobic activities help make your heart stronger and more efficient. They also use more calories than other activities.
Some examples of aerobic activities include: Brisk walking, Jogging, Bicycling, Swimming, Aerobic dancing, Racket sports,
Rowing, Ice or Roller Skating, Cross-country or Downhill Skiing, and Using aerobic equipment (i.e., treadmill, stationary
bike)

The idea in aerobic exercise is to do the exercise long and hard enough to use up all the oxygen circulating in your
bloodstream to get into your "second wind" (to kick in a little-used alternate metabolic pathway which is a much more
efficient oxygen transfer system), then to keep going a few minutes. That's actually when the major benefits of aerobic
exercise actually accrue, during the activity done using one's second wind.

Walt's Metabolic Type and ER4YT Diets Q&A Archive
A group of people whose ancestors lived in more temperate settings abundant in vegetation and far better suited for
agriculture. Animal food sources were utilized less often and in much smaller quantities in their diets. These people today
thrive on an almost vegetarian diet consisting primarily of complex carbohydrates from vegetables and fruit. They have
relative metabolic difficulties with purines, fats and salt.

Walt's Aging Options Summary and Q/A Archive
As the old saw goes: "There is an alternative to aging. Die young." The purpose of holistic medicine is to die at an
advanced age, but still to be functionally as young as possible. Dr. Friese's research has demonstrated (for 20 years)
that a simple wellness program--as described on this BB-- not only extends life measurably,
but MUCH more significantly, greatly improves the functionality of the last 1/3 of life.

Walt's AIDS Summary & Q&A ArchiveColorado HealthNet HIV/AIDS Main Page
An epidemic disease ostensibly caused by an infection by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1, HIV-2), a retrovirus that causes
immune system failure and debilitation and is often accompanied by infections such as tuberculosis. AIDS is spread through direct
contact with bodily fluids.

Walt says: Wellness is still the best way to keep exposure from
retroviruses causing elevated HIV antibodies and, once the HIV is positive, keeping THAT condition from progressing to frank AIDS.
Remember, only about one in ten people exposed to the AIDS virus actually become HIV positive, even if they do nothing. That means that
nearly everyone with 10 exposures will become HIV positive UNLESS they are practicing wellness.

In this site, we expand the useful definition past the classical limited allergy definition above, defining allergy as an abnormal
response to a food, drug or something in our environment that usually does not cause symptoms in most people. Also we can view an allergy
as anything that weakens the body’s energy system.

Originally coined by homeopathic physician Samuel Hahnemann in the 19th Century, the term allopathic medicine is derived from Greek
roots meaning "other than the disease." The term is used most often today to refer to conventional medical practice, as opposed
to alternative modalities such as homeopathy, herbal medicine, etc.

A brainwave ranging from 8-12 Hertz. Alpha is a state of light relaxation. Not a sleep state, but usually reflective of a calm,
focused mind. Alpha is sometimes called the "superlearning state" because the brain seems to be more receptive and open to new information.
Alpha is also considered ideal for creative brain-storming. Most meditation occurs in this state.

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Some situations that cause pain can also lead to a situation where the pain is so great that you don't feel it. This is termed
stress-induced analgesia. For example, injury in battle may be so stressful that some soldiers feel no pain; since histamines
& endorphins are released.

Anorexia Nervosa

Walt's Anorexia Q&A Archive
An eating disorder characterized a misperception of body image. Individuals with anorexia nervosa often believe they are
overweight even when they are grossly underweight. Profound intracellular zinc deficiency is the most common known cause of
continued anorexia, since a vicious cycle occurs. See also Zinc Talley Test.

An entire little "brain" unto itself. A control system of two types of nervous systems that actually oppose
each other in their actions. When we are under stress, the activating aspect of this system, the
sympathetic nervous system evokes the responses characteristic of the "fight-or-flight" response:
it increases pulse and blood pressure, cools the skin, causes sweating, activates the production of sugar, pupils dilate, and the
digestive system is put on hold. Conversely, the parasympathetic nervous system, the quieting aspect of the ANS, counteracts these
actions by slowing down the body, including: slowing the heart, constricting the pupils, stimulating the gut and salivary glands,
and other responses that are not a priority when being "chased by a tiger". The state of the body at any given time represents a balance
between these two systems.

Antacids and mineral deficiencies

Antacids, by reducing the acidity of the stomach, prevent your system from absorbing nearly ALL minerals. Taking any antacid
routinely, virtually guarantees that the person will eventually become deficient in minerals.

Anti-Aging Manual; The Encyclopedia of Natural Health

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Book by Joseph Marion. This book is the definitive guide about natural medicine. Very comprehensive, yet, for the most part, extremely easy
to understand. This is a must for individuals with cancer and immune disorders, as well as anyone wanting to stave off the effects of
environmental health hazards. With this manual, I also recommend the book
Alternative Medicine - The Definitive Guide by the Burton Goldberg Group. The two
books go hand-in-hand.

Why NO ONE Should Use Antiperspirants:
Walt has assisted at surgery for total excision of the arm pit skin with skin graft to cover the huge empty space----ALL due
to the use of antiperspirants.

Antiperspirants work by causing the little ducts to the sweat glands to pucker up and hold the sweat in. This eventually causes
permanent damage, let alone the infections caused by the gland not being able to drain properly. Of course, this does not happen to
everyone, which is why antiperspirants are still on the market. It does happen to too large a number
of people for the public to not know about it.

Let me use this opportunity to help educate the public about body odor. Sweat does not HAVE an unpleasant odor!!!!!! It is only
when the skin bacteria have had a chance to munch on it for a while that the waste products FROM THE BACTERIA start to smell bad.

People that use an antibacterial soap (Dial, Phase III, Safeguard, P300, etc.) keep the bacterial count on their skin pretty low.
If one has never done this, they should take a bath twice a day for a few weeks to get the bacteria under control, and then once a
day is enough.

Also, any clothing will be contaminated with these same bacteria, so using the same clothes 2 days in a row is a risk. Even using
the same bath towel twice recontaminates the skin and should be avoided for at least 6 months (perhaps forever).

People who follow these simple directions will not have a body odor (UNLESS they are sick & need metabolic detoxification).

Walt's Aplastic Anemia Summary & Q&A Archive
A form of anemia in which the bone marrow fails to produce adequate numbers of peripheral blood elements. This type of anemia is,
perhaps, the most severe one can have since it is caused by a shutdown of the person's ability to MAKE
blood cells. That means that, even if all the necessary nutrients are present, the factory cannot make them into cells.

The only known, conventional, solution is repeated blood transfusions. Eventually even that will not help, and the person dies.
There are medications that will help for a while, but it is really whipping a deadly tired horse. Eventually, they will not work
because the horse is dead.

It is now known that the most common cause of this condition is MCS (Multiple Chemical Sensitivities)
and how early in life this happens to an individual is genetically determined. A good Clinical Ecologist can likely
help a person avoid such toxins.

Nearly all aplastic anemia patients die of a complication of the disease - not from the disease itself. With aplastic anemia the
body does not make immune cells just like it does not make red cells. SO the person's immunity goes WAY down. The standard way to
treat a person with aplastic anemia in a hospital is just like treating someone with AIDS. They need isolation from the germs already
in the hospital, or it is not safe for them to even BE in the hospital.

The American Society of Clinical Hypnosis was founded in 1957 as a society for health professionals interested in the
clinical applications of hypnosis. ASCH conducts training workshops in hypnosis, holds scientific meetings, provides information
to its members, publishes a journal and newsletter, and facilitates communication among professionals. The society will provide
a list of local professionals who use clinical hypnosis in their practices, if the request is accompanied by a stamped,
self-addressed envelope.

Several scientists had noticed the effect of pulsating light and sound stimuli on brainwave patterns as early as 1910. But it
wasn't until the early 1970's that neuroscientists confirmed that with the use of sound it is possible to stimulate the brain to
move to or through any of the four main brainwave states (Beta, Alpha,
Theta and Delta).

In 1973, Dr. Gerald Oster of Mt. Sinai Medical Center published a paper called "Auditory Beats in the Brain" identifying a
characteristic of the brain in which the brain would resonate to the frequency difference between two tones presented to opposite
ears (typically using stereo headphones). Because the brain hemispheres are not entirely separate, but connected, they actually
respond to these two tones by producing a third tone representing the difference between the two original tones. Here's an example:

Tone of 230 Hz played to right ear. Tone of 240 Hz played to left ear:

So by using the above two tones, a calm alpha brainwave state can be created for the listener. This same
process -- called Brainwave Entrainment - can be used to create virtually any brainwave pattern desired. Today, this technique is
used as a means of achieving meditative states in personal growth (See SR), in treatment therapies for learning
disabilities like dyslexia and attention deficit (see ADD), and in many other approaches to improving mental
functioning and enhancing well-being.

There is also a dual-binaural beat technology that does not require the use of headphones, but uses ordinary speakers.

One form of Skilled Relaxation. A systematic program to teach your body and mind to respond quickly and
effectively to verbal commands to relax and to return to a balanced, normal state. Autogenic training consists of imagining a peaceful
environment and comforting bodily sensations. Six basic focusing techniques are used: heaviness in the limbs, warmth in the limbs,
cardiac regulation, centering on breathing, warmth in the upper abdomen, and coolness in the forehead.

Walt's Autoimmune Summary & Q/A Archive
Autoimmunity happens then the immune system mistakenly starts attacking our own tissues. Since those attacks are very specific--the way
the immune system is designed to work--thyroid tissue, joints, connective tissue, blood elements, etc., are normally attacked in
isolation even though the basic problem is autoimmunity. Walt says: ALL autoimmune conditions are basically caused by the same mechanisms:
that of Bracing followed by LGS and frequently complicated by
CRS and parasitosis. Finally, environmental hypersensitivities cause the damage,
and they are made possible (even inevitable) by the processes described above.

Walt's Metabolic Type and ER4YT Diets Q&A Archive
These are those foods that are metabolically inappropriate for your physiology. While they should generally be
avoided, they can often be tolerated in small quantities when eaten in conjunction with your
Core / Supplemental foods. Avoid Foods also tend to be best
tolerated when eaten with your evening meal. This group of foods are the last that should be tested following the
Elimination diet as many will generate symptoms.

(The) Awakened Mind: Biofeedback and the development of higher states of awareness

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A classic book by Maxwell Cade and Nona Coxhead, published by Delacorte Press. Required reading for anyone
desiring to learn about the development and early discoveries of neurofeedback training. Easy to
understand, written for the layperson.

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